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A three-year-old patient became the first child in Lithuania to be infected with Covid-19. The child’s parents, both doctors, also tested positive for the infection, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The child is being treated at home, it said. Six new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Lithuania on Tuesday evening, on top of the 24 confirmed throughout the day, bringing the country’s total to 209. Thirty-nine caes of…

A three-year-old patient became the first child in Lithuania to be infected with Covid-19. The child’s parents, both doctors, also tested positive for the infection, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The child is being treated at home, it said. The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Lithuania has risen to 187. Eight new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Lithuania on Tuesday, bringing the country’s total to 187.…

An airman found guilty of sexually assaulting a child multiple times over a 17-month period while stationed at Aviano received a 40-year prison sentence, an Air Force official said this week. Airman Alexander L. Driskill was found guilty by a military jury of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12, 31st Fighter Wing spokeswoman Maj. Sarah Babcock said in a statement. Driskill had earlier pleaded guilty to charges…

Lithuanian police launched an extensive search operation on Wednesday night following reports that a child could have been abducted in Vilnius. The city’s police were alerted at around 19:14 on Wednesday that a girl aged 11 or 12 could have been forced into a silver or yellow car with foreign number plates on Sausio 13-osios Street. Police said on Thursday morning that an intensive overnight search had produced no tangible…

Film director Lulu Wang knew her pitch for “The Farewell” was unconventional. She wanted to make an autobiographical drama about the time when, in 2013, her family learned that her grandmother in China, affectionately called Nai Nai, had stage 4 lung cancer and was given three months to live. The grim diagnosis was kept from Nai Nai, a somewhat common approach to death and dying in China. Wang, whose family…

In a large-scale operation that took place last week Latvian police detained ten of the most active child pornography distributors, as confirmed by Latvia’s State Police Sex Crime Prevention Department Chief Oļegs Lavčinovskis. Thanks to international cooperation ten searches were performed in homes of ten men in two days. During those searches, police confiscated computers and a large number of data storage devices containing child pornography and prohibited pornographic materials.…

According to local media, some 1,300 of the inhabitants of Valka, the Latvian border town just across from Valga on the Estonian side, are already registered as Estonian residents. And their number is increasing. The strategy of the residents in question is to register in Estonia and go on living in Latvia. This allows them to claim Estonian benefits and makes looking for work, while they can go on living…

The Duchess of Sussex, 37, is said to want hypnobirthing at home instead of the ultra fancy Lido Wing that Kate Middleton opted for. Meghan Markle is said to be swotting up on ‘hypnobirthing’ and may even have the child at home. The pregnant Duchess, 37, is believed to be about five months pregnant with her first child. It is not thought she will be having the baby at the…

Pope Francis must further elaborate on how the Vatican could move beyond “palliatives” and resolve ongoing abuse scandals currently rocking the Church across the world, Deirdre Kenny, the advocacy director for the Irish One in Four non-governmental organization. Pope Francis will arrive in Ireland on Saturday and is expected to meet with survivors of clerical sexual abuse during the visit in an apparent bid to initiate direct dialogue and potential reconciliation. On Monday, the pope released an open…

A boy asks his father, “Dad, are bugs good to eat?” “That’s disgusting. Don’t talk about things like that over dinner,” the dad replies. After dinner the father asks, “Now, son, what did you want to ask me?” “Oh, nothing,” the boy says. “There was a bug in your soup, but now it’s gone.”